West Brom are hopeful Harvey Barnes will be available to face Ipswich Town on Friday week.

The loan youngster has been forced to withdraw from England Under 21s’ games with Italy and Denmark over the international break.

Instead he will return to Albion for assessment, with a view to resuming his excellent Championship campaign.

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The Baggies travel to Portman Road on Friday, November 23 looking to build on Saturday’s morale-boosting 4-1 win over Leeds United which put them back in the play-off places.

Barnes has scored six goals and provided three assists since his making his season-long move from Leicester City.

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Fulham's seventh consecutive defeat in all competitions has only served to ramp up speculation about Slavisa Jokanovic's position as manager.

Reports ahead of the weekend suggested that a loss at Liverpool may trigger the Serbian's sacking with Fulham's owners running out of patience after a dismal start the season.

The Whites were beaten 2-0 at Anfield - albeit in perhaps unfortunate circumstances after a vastly-improved performance - a result which leaves them rock bottom of the Premier League and three points from safety.

Jokanovic got Fulham promoted last season but the bookies are now taking bets on who might replace him - although football.london report that he will be in charge for the next game against Southampton after the international break.

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Former West Bromwich Albion, Newcastle United and Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew leads the market as the odds-on favourite.

Pardew, 57, was sacked in April after winning just three of his 21 games in charge which effectively paved the way for the the Baggies’ relegation.

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“(The taxi incident) was damaging in so much that prior to that trip - which was meant to be a team-bonding trip - we had a fantastic result against Brighton and we had beaten Liverpool in the cup with their strongest team," he said.

“Suddenly, I felt we were there. I thought we were going to make it really tight for everybody else.

“The Barcelona thing was a terrible incident.

“The players let themselves down, they let the club down and they let me down.